Beverly Khnie Philip MD, FACA, FASA

Beverly Khnie Philip, M.D. is Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard University and Founding Director of the Day Surgery Unit at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She received her undergraduate degree from Queens College, City University of New York, New York, the MD degree from Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, Syracuse, NY, and completed the anesthesia residency and research fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Dr. Philip is the First Vice President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the professional society of over 52,000 US and international anesthesiologists. She recently served as ASA’s Vice President for Scientific Affairs, with responsibility for all educational and scientific activities of the organization. Dr. Philip also has a strong interest and ongoing contribution to national anesthesiology policy, particularly related to quality and regulatory issues. Her service in ASA has also included the ASA Board of Directors representing Massachusetts, Chair of the ASA Quality Management and Departmental Administration Committee, Chair of the ASA Ambulatory Surgical Care Committee, and she was Chair of the ASA Annual Meeting for 2009.

Dr. Philip is a founding member and Past President of the Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA), a national organization that promotes scientific progress in the subspecialty of ambulatory anesthesia. She has served as the Chair of the Joint Commission’s Ambulatory Health Care Professional and Technical Advisory Committee and on the Board of Directors and Standards Committee of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

Dr. Philip was a founding participant of the CMS Advisory Panel on Ambulatory Payment Classification Groups and served 2 three-year terms. Dr. Philip is Immediate Past President of the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery (IAAS), and is the past Editor-in-Chief of the international journal “Ambulatory Surgery”. She presented the Nicoll Lecture to the IAAS and the Frontiers Lecture to SAMBA. Dr. Philip has received the SAMBA Distinguished Service Award and her medical school’s 2018 Distinguished Alumna Award.